Terror's Advocate
L'avocat de la terreur
Rating: 6.5 · 2007 · Documentary · France · 2 ч 15 мин
Description
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
Information
- Original title
- L'avocat de la terreur
- Year
- 2007
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2 ч 15 мин
- TMDB
- 6.5
- IMDb
- 6.5
Director
Cast
- Jacques Vergès — Self
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
- Yacef Saâdi — Self
- Magdalena Kopp — Self
- Abderrahmane Benhamida — Self
- Djamila Bouhared — Self
- Isabelle Coutant-Peyre — Self
- Jean-Paul Dollé — Self
- Barbet Schroeder — Narrator (voice)
- Guillaume Durand — Self (archive footage)
- Klaus Barbie — Self (archive footage)
- Zohra Drif-Bitat — Self
- Bassam Abu Sharif — Self
- Pol Pot — Self
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